In the article written by,
Linda Christensen, I found it surprising when she brought up sexism in the
cartoons. I have actually never thought about it, but after reading this, I
remembered quite a few cartoons that did have some disturbing illustrations. For
example, Roger’s Rabbit, Jessica has a beautiful figure, and many girls
nowadays would want her figure. “Turning off the cartoons doesn’t stop the
sexism and rascism.”(page 7) Meaning, after seeing the image of Jessica, even
after banning them from watching the cartoon, they will still try to imitate
the look they have in their heads. Along with sexism, there is racism. Where
she claims that, “Kenneth noticed that
people of color and poor people are either absent or servants to the rich,
white, pretty people.”(page 5) Even after being desegregated, in the cartoons,
it still portrays segregation as colored people are still lowly people in the
cartoons and poor people are still looked down upon the rich. I feel that we
should be looked upon as equal in cartoons too, not just in reality. “There
should be more woman of color who play the leads in these white-on-white
wedding cake tales,”(page 6). I totally agree with her. As it would make more
people feel equal to other races than feel intimidated by a race that they
would think is more superior.
